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iOS 5 to Bring Revamped Notification System and Widgets?
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This will be a good thread to read up on in a month or 2. All these people crying "no widgets" will probably be the same ones saying "omg widgets are great"
Anyway, I am very interested to see how apple revamps iOS, its is really the ONLY REASON why I choose android. Androids OS is far superior, with Iphone 4 having superior hardware(than most android phones)
Anyway, I am very interested to see how apple revamps iOS, its is really the ONLY REASON why I choose android. Androids OS is far superior, with Iphone 4 having superior hardware(than most android phones)
I am a very happy Android user, but if Apple brings Widgets and Notification system to iOS5, and even better battery life which I am guessing they will, then I will be seriously tempted to come back to the iPhone, last one I owned was the 3G.
Please bring it to Sprint as well
Please bring it to Sprint as well
Surely you're aware that you can double-tap the home button to show a list of recently opened apps? (Technically they're still opened but "dormant" and will be closed as needed if iOS needs more resources, but it's effectively a list of recent and currently "running" apps. Moreover, you can tap and hold one of them to get the ability to manually exit any as desired.)
While it's not as easy as other systems (e.g., OS X itself), it's certainly not as cumbersome as you described. For example, if you've opened Settings recently, you don't have to close the original app, and you certainly don't have to close Settings to switch back to the app at the end.
I eagerly await a suitable notification system, and share your opinion about widgets for the most part. I only have three on my Android phones, due to their usefulness. A way to view it is the same way we view apps. Some are not to bad, some are fairly good, and some are downright excellent.
Um
So yea, widgets have been around for very long time. implementation is the key. The use for them on a phone is purely based on opinion. Some mentioned (Andriod users) that they had their calendars with one swipe left and todo's with one swipe right. We're really splitting hairs now. Swipe left or tap the app. Huge difference there. N yes I , had a Droid in the past.
Widgets will be more beneficial for tablets as there is more real-estate in terms of screen size. But having the option for widgets will not hurt once there is an easy way to make sure they are not running in the background and using battery life.
So yea, widgets have been around for very long time. implementation is the key. The use for them on a phone is purely based on opinion. Some mentioned (Andriod users) that they had their calendars with one swipe left and todo's with one swipe right. We're really splitting hairs now. Swipe left or tap the app. Huge difference there. N yes I , had a Droid in the past.
Widgets will be more beneficial for tablets as there is more real-estate in terms of screen size. But having the option for widgets will not hurt once there is an easy way to make sure they are not running in the background and using battery life.
It was the same thing with pretty much any thing people wanted.
Notifications is a huge annoyance for me, yet many here didn't see a problem with them.
The Feel of an Android OS is just subpar in my opinion. I would say IOs software is superior and more stable. I would say the hardware of the main Android devices are better as they seem to focus on CPU speed and megapixels instead of efficient/quality programming.
Again, the option to have a widget wont hurt. Maybe for some at a glance weather updates. But it isn't a need based on what I've experience. The difference in time it takes is a couple of seconds.
Apple buying LockScreenInfo and allowing hooks into that would be fine with me. Really notifications on Android and WebOS are superior to iOS and I hope they correct that on Monday.
As an aside, they could also fix the multitasking interface to be more like expose and less like a list of applications that you have recently ran (even if they aren't open).
I agree with the notifications and even multitasking could be improved. I for one cant stand having to tap each multitasked item in the bar to close it. there should be one button to close all if you so choose lol It will be interesting to see what they come up with. The impact for me will be on my iPad more so than the IPhone. At the moment I'm not interested in the potential iCloud service as an upgrade but we'll see.
Apple, just fix these two things and everyone will be happy.
1. Gmail notification, so we won't have to use the damn microsoft exchange..
2. Give the ability to select apps to put on multitask... friggen annoying to have to close every single app you open....
1. Gmail notification, so we won't have to use the damn microsoft exchange..
2. Give the ability to select apps to put on multitask... friggen annoying to have to close every single app you open....
I don't think that was what the op meant. He described perfectly my life with my iPhone. Android you quick access (drop down menus from the top bar) for the most common settings (wi-fi, airplane mode, etc.) without having to go into a menu, find setting, switch it. Just tap, tap, done. As the topic is widgets, you don't have to open an app for ever thing with widgets. Double tapping the home key is "task manager" and not the same thing (and Android does that too). If you want to know the weather in the iPhone, you must open an app. On android if it's not on your lock or home screen, it's a swipe away to a widget pane.
With IOS we scroll left and right. The main app grid on most android devices scrolls up and down, and left and right take you to panes with widgets and other stuff you put there. Adding widgets to IOS could be painless as making the app screens scroll up and down, but who knows if that isn't a patent war waiting to happen? "We patented the idea of scrolling a menu grid up and down Jobs. Sorry pal."
I'm excited to see what IOS 5 brings as I'm bored with IOS. Folders and backgrounds didn't make it feel "new" or "different" and it really hasn't see any major features since IOS1. Spotlight. Oooh. Though I still find Android to be clunky, but I think that's less the OS-es fault and more the custom interfaces every phone maker slaps on them.
The Today-Screen plugins starting with Windows Pocket PC 2000 were some of the first live homescreen "widgets".
I think that's where millions of people got used to having information always available.
Just look at webOS for notifications AND multitasking done right.
Other than it's lack of apps, it's the best mobile OS out there at the moment, IMHO.
Umm, why? Microsoft Exchange is awesome...
You Have To Be A White Boy
That is not a genius idea, I hear fantastic ideas all the time in the ghettos...you don't see anyone from Apple knocking on ghetto doors. In this life I see that you have to be White...point blank. However, it is like treating a sickness...you can either put a band-aid on or work it from the inside going out...the colored people are on the inside...behind the scenes...the Whites are the band-aids on the outside...taking the short lived lime light...sometimes the picture is a lot bigger than one is willing to imagine. Look at Lynda.Com...you have these guys with giant professional titles and credits and all they are doing is teaching you grade school garbage...come on now...get off the "this is a tool" bogus notions and teach the people how to think...these guys really need to go back to their Zerox schools and try again.
It's a White man's world but the soul belongs to the colored folk.
That is not a genius idea, I hear fantastic ideas all the time in the ghettos...you don't see anyone from Apple knocking on ghetto doors. In this life I see that you have to be White...point blank. However, it is like treating a sickness...you can either put a band-aid on or work it from the inside going out...the colored people are on the inside...behind the scenes...the Whites are the band-aids on the outside...taking the short lived lime light...sometimes the picture is a lot bigger than one is willing to imagine. Look at Lynda.Com...you have these guys with giant professional titles and credits and all they are doing is teaching you grade school garbage...come on now...get off the "this is a tool" bogus notions and teach the people how to think...these guys really need to go back to their Zerox schools and try again.
It's a White man's world but the soul belongs to the colored folk.